The Medicine-Taking Genius Wizard Episode 942
: Dapcheon (2)
Memories of Oshuto Duris, a level 8 extremely capable person.
A statue of the head temple of the religious order where he met the former priestess to save his son.
From a deal that went beyond human responsibilities to a religious leader who directly revealed his will as proof of the contract.
Lennok understood that all of this had happened in a split second within the sanctuary created by Ureka Naidri.
[You look like you have a lot to ask…]
The religious leader, who revealed his will from beyond the veil, nodded towards Lennok, who did not say anything.
[I understand. A lot must have happened in the meantime…?]
There was no explanation, so you wouldn’t know where the world’s time zone is right now.
It seemed like he was already fully aware of the situation.
“…Cult leader.”
Lennok answered in a calm voice.
“I-”
[There was one more person I promised…]
“…”
The leader who said that raised his gaze and Lennok also fell silent.
If it weren’t for him, whose essence and origins are contrary to the cult leader’s, Lennok wouldn’t have been here in the first place.
But the leader tilted his head for a moment and smiled strangely.
[I guess I need some time…]
“…What do you mean?”
[It means that he paid a price for this position today…]
The religious leader answered like that and walked slowly, using Ezel’s body.
[It looks like we have some free time, so let’s hear what we need to hear first….]
“This is what we need to hear?”
I can guess why the leader is late.
The inevitable power that helped Lennok split Anathema.
For a magical device that twists the world to ‘aim’ bullets and targets, it’s no wonder there is a price or recoil.
Rather, would it be an illusion to feel more like a monster that he could come to this place even after paying such a price for his power?
However, Lennok’s thoughts were swept away by the cult leader’s next words.
[If you had seen and heard about the events of Yorta, you would definitely have something you wanted to ask me…]
“….”
The military city of Yorta. Mugan, the cursed sanctuary that exists in the memorial tower.
The body of the Ascendant Arrival stored in the center of the sanctuary where all curses in the world are observed and stored.
At one time, it was the incarnation of the cult leader himself to reveal his will to reality, and later it was a vessel arranged for Kaise Bajur.
The leader nodded as if he could guess Lennok’s feelings.
[Now that I have traded my protection and Anathema’s name, I feel like I can tell you the story of our origins at a price…] It’s
a story about us.
Obviously, it’s not about the cult leader’s purpose or the reason why Dorae’s body was hidden in Yorta.
This is probably not the story of why the cult leader met Kaise Bajur and arranged a spare body for him.
The religious leader was simply saying that he could talk about more fundamental issues here in the name of Anathema.
That may be because he knows what the most important and pressing problem is for Lennok, more than all the things happening in the world.
Lennok, who realized this, was momentarily troubled.
“….”
Considering the presence of the leader, this moment itself was not intended as a question and answer.
Rather, this is a time when religious leaders who rely on chance can answer about their true nature.
What should I start with? What question should I ask to get the answer closest to the essence from him?
[You don’t have to worry too much… You don’t have to choose your questions so carefully…]
The leader looked at Lennok’s serious face and laughed lightly.
[If you answer as your heart tells you, that is the way to connect with your origins.]
…As your heart tells you.
After hearing that, Lennoch decided on the first question to ask.
Although he fought and killed the leaders of the church and cursed and blasphemed their human sacrifices.
Still, there is one memory that comes to mind first in Lennok.
Because he was a friend who sacrificed himself for Lennok at the last moment.
“It is said that the priestess of the religious order is the priest who presides over the rituals and inherits the authority to access the religious system.”
Lennok asked in a quiet voice.
“Is that to fulfill the role of a terminal that transmits your voice like it does now?”
Through long travels and research, Lennok already knows how the cult leader exists in this world.
The leader of the cult who passed through two ascensions to the third world cannot exist in this world in a proper way.
Therefore, I only indirectly influence reality by hiding my true nature and living in other people’s memories and beliefs.
Although it proves the transcendence that he can intervene at any time as long as it is a memory of the cult leader himself.
Conversely, if the memory was not tied to the cult leader, it would also mean that one could escape his influence.
However, even though the memory is not related to him, the religious leader uses the presence of a priestess in his memory to convey his will to this place.
Lennok thought that this might be because the priestess was arranged for such a ‘purpose’ in the first place, and asked the religious leader a question.
[I kept Naidri’s children by my side because I sympathized with their fate…] The
cult leader looked at Lennok and then answered in a slow voice.
[I don’t think about reasons and uses first, as it may be an emotional motivation. Because the concept itself is now meaningless to me….]
“Are you saying that once you have collected it, you can only think about its usefulness?”
Lennok laughed.
“These words are unconvincing, coming from the owner of a hundred thousand denomination. “What you did was such an impromptu decision?”
[There are things that do not disappear even after the world is destroyed and cause and effect are cut off…]
The religious leader closed his eyes.
[Unplanned past. An uncontrolled future. Unrecognizable possibility…. They collide in random disorder to create new cause and effect….]
“….”
[The moment cause and effect exist without depending on each other, they cannot be swept away by fate. Acquiring independence that is not possible….]
The religious leader borrowed Ezel’s mouth and smiled slightly.
[I call this coincidence.]
“….”
It captures all the possibilities that pass by beyond immeasurable time and space.
It’s enough if it blooms someday and becomes meaningful, and if it withers and dies, that’s fine too.
I don’t completely control everything, but to some extent I just let it go and watch it go.
That is why its essence remains even beyond the end of the world and has eternal life.
Even after everything comes to an end, everything will happen by chance, end by chance, and have meaning by chance.
The cult leader was telling Lennok that he had succeeded in ascending to heaven and crossed the world, and that he would continue to exist like that in the future.
The existence of Izel Naidry was just one of the countless arrangements that blossomed in the hands of the religious leader.
Therefore, Lennok had no choice but to ask about another Naidry.
“Seina Naidry… tried to believe in the salvation of the world until the end.”
Lennok unconsciously touched his wrist and muttered.
“Even when I was cursed by Jinwa’s words, my body died, and my soul was about to disappear, I tried to leave possibilities other than the church.”
[….]
“Was it enough if all those events were part of a passing coincidence? Was there any further meaning to her disappearance?”
Could it be that the religious leader did not notice the priestly authority that Seina had passed on to Lennok?
That can’t be possible. However, even though I knew, I pretended not to know and just watched without intervening.
All the things that happened when Lennok used his priestly authority to take away Anateme’s innate ability and see through its essence.
Even the moment when Seina Naidry abandoned doctrine at the last moment and chose Lennok.
For the religious leader, is this just an arrangement that will cause it to die without being able to bloom?
However, the leader burst out laughing at Lennok’s words as if they were unexpected.
[Is that possible?… You should know better.]
The reaction was as if Lennok’s question was so unbearably interesting that there was nothing he could do about it.
[I know that many of the things you saw and felt are moments that I too have passed by at some point…]
“….”
[The world we have lived in and the people we have loved are different, but the fact that we must have seen and felt the same things… .]
The leader whispered.
[It’s just worn out. I’m too tired to express my appreciation for everything… I’m wondering if I’ve forgotten the most important thing…]
“The most important thing…?”
[You probably thought that you wouldn’t forget the feelings you made in the beginning, right?]
The leader’s question leaves you speechless.
A word that seems to immediately reveal what kind of mindset Lennok had in surviving in this world.
Know. Because he was who he once was. Because I would have been him someday.
There is no need to try to insight, intuit, or understand.
Now, all I have to do is take out the few memories left from countless old memories and place them in front of Lennok.
With that alone, Lennok felt as if he was looking in a mirror and felt incomprehensible.
[You won’t forget… But you won’t remember whether it was really right…] As
if guessing Lennok’s feelings, the leader spoke softly.
It’s as if the story is telling the story of someone who has already gone through that path, comparing it to Lennok’s situation.
[You make countless failures to check whether your answer is right, and each time you do, it becomes more and more unclear…] “….
”
[In the end, you stop even checking yourself. [Like that…]
The cult leader whispered with his eyes closed.
[You will have to wait.]
What kind of life did the leader live?
He first opened his eyes with the talent of a monk, ascended twice, and was left alone in the third world.
What caused him to collapse and break down during that journey?
Know.
Those transcendental people who succeeded in ascending to heaven may have already passed by what Lennok thought and felt.
Think like Lennok, think like Lennok, make decisions like Lennok, and finally you may have achieved a status comparable to the world.
Therefore, they may not have forgotten the feelings they made in the beginning until the end.
But they just didn’t forget their own answer. Other things were ultimately not kept.
Before the end of the world, he cannot remember whether his answer was right or whether the journey to find the answer was what he wanted.
But now I’m just waiting.
Time to check if your answer was right.
A past and future self that has not yet been broken.
Then, of course, the words written on the mirror at that time were –
Quick!!!
At that moment, the white sanctuary made up of Duris’ memories split like a crack.
A strange sense of disconnection, as if the entire world of memories was distorted and twisted.
Then the other orthodontic technicians, who had frozen in place, all glared at the crack.
Even Oshuto Duris, who was bowing his head in memory, looked at the crack with bloodshot eyes and expressed hostility.
A strange reaction, as if he could not tolerate the impurities that had entered this moment.
[It looks like he has arrived…]
The leader whispered slowly and raised his hand.
[Then, is it okay if we end our brief entertainment here…?]
“…This must have started on your whim from the beginning, before you asked for my permission.”
Lennok smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Lennok, who had forced himself to shake off the heaviness welling up in his heart, belatedly regained his composure and spoke.
“To begin with, I don’t trust your answer that much. “For me to believe that, what the church has done in this world makes no sense.”
The cult leader’s answer contained so much meaning that even Lennok could not fathom its depth, but Lennok did not think that all of what he said was true.
The wars and sacrifices committed by the church were too cruel to believe that the mistakes and failures he committed were purely for the sake of seeking righteousness.
Whatever the reason, the cult he leads is an extreme religious group that treats humans as mere expendable items.
It is also clear that all of these events are ultimately a process of serving the end of the ocean as gods.
“Failure of the project. The fall of Arsnova. The Emperor’s Legacy. The only thing that is clear is that it is all intertwined. “Other than that, it’s just words that reflect on the world from your perspective.”
Lennok lifted his gaze.
“know. That you tried too. He even succeeded twice. “There must be a reason why things ended up like that.”
[….]
“But in the end, I-” I
know that the leader is a challenger who has achieved great feats that the current Lennok cannot even dare to imagine.
A monster who did not just acquire the qualifications to challenge for ascension, but actually succeeded in ascending to heaven and achieved the miracle of transcending the world twice.
It is also true that the way it exists in the worship and fanaticism of others is, in fact, at a level where it would not be strange to call it a god.
But still, if there’s one thing Lennok thinks about and is certain about the cult leader –
Kwasik!!
At that moment, the crack engraved in the pure white sanctuary widened wider and twisted the space itself, splitting it apart.
Even the images of Oshuto and the orthodontic technician Izel Naidri, who were staring at the cracks in the memory, were shattered and scattered in the shock.
Only the pale, luminous light of the sanctuary hovered above the crack like an angelic ring.
It looks as if a crack in space is forcing the sanctuary open with its will.
[It looks like you don’t like this memory… It’s tricky.]
The leader’s humorous voice echoed faintly from beyond the angelic ring.
[great. If you don’t like the stage… I’ll adjust it to you…]
At that moment, the scenery of the pantheon where Lennok was standing changed as if turned upside down.
‘Waaaa!!’
Thousands of paladins wearing pure white armor run through the blood-soaked wilderness.
In the sky, priests wearing angel wings shot out white magic.
On the other side of the battlefield, an army of machines clad in black energy arose and clashed with the Holy Knights.
Blood and oil were scattered on the dust of the wilderness, emitting an acrid smell.
A battlefield somewhere. Memories that do not exist in this world now.
Before Lennok could ask anything about him, the leader took the first step.
[Please go… he will be waiting for you.]
“…What about this memory?”
[Isn’t there a predetermined moment when people who are not from this world will meet?…]
The leader answered slowly.
[A miracle of transcendence where worlds overlap. A lunar eclipse where humans and the world become equal in status and obscure each other….] “….” The
moment
Lennok realized the meaning of those words and stopped breathing, the religious leader made a strange announcement. I smiled.
[This is a memory of the moment the ascendant succeeded in ascending.]
